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I TOP FOR $TOVES. No. 286,586. Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

EDXVAR-D BRUSH FINGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOP FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,536, dated Cccober 9, 1883.

' I Application filed August 7, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, EDWARD Bnusn FINOH, a citizen of the United States, residing at or in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Tops for Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the pieces used to vary the number and location of the holes in stove-tops; and the object of my invention is to provide a stove-top that may be arranged to have either two or three holes at will, and in which, when arranged as a three-holed top, all three holes are nearly equidistant fromthecenter of the heatcurrent, while when arranged as atwo-holed top one hole receives the heat direct; thence the heat-current passes direct to the second hole before finding egress from the stove; also, to provide a secondary oil-stove stop in which the usual supportingpieccs may be entirely removed, enabling cool:- ing or heating operations to be accomplished upon the primary top without disturbing or removing the secondary top. I attain these objects by the construction substantially illustrated in the accompanying drawings of my improved top as applied to an oil-stove, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of my improved top arranged to have three holes. Fig. 2 is a top view of my improved top arranged to have two holes. Fig. 3 isa top view of my improved top with the pieces forsupporting the cooking-utensils removed. Fig. eiisatop view of the piece designed to give to the stove-top three holes, and Fig-5 is a top view of the piece for giving theltoptwo holes.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

The secondary top T is provided with the two pieces A and B, either of which will fit into a suitable seat provided in the top in the usual manner. When the piece A is in position, as in Fig. 2, the secondary top is provided with two holes, one of which, F, is directly over the flame or heat openings G, and is therefore in the most effective position for heating purposes, while the remaining heat passes direct to the second hole, G.

\Vhen B is in position on the stove-top, as shown in Fig. 1, then the three holes D E G receive comparatively equal quantities of heat ascending through the flame-opening C. IVhen both pieces A and B are removed, the primary stove top X, upon which my improved top is placed, may be utilized for all the purposes possible if my improved top was not on it, thus avoiding the necessity of removing my improved top, which is necessary in all other tops.

I am aware that prior to my invention means have been devised whereby to convert two holes into one by removing the center piece between the two holes and the use of two crescent-shaped pieces at the extremity of the oval hole thus formed; but in such devices it has been impossible to accomplish this result without providing the top with either two re- I movable pieces and a fixed plate, or else pro viding it with more than two removable pieces. Furthermore, it has, in such prior devices, been impossible to place a vessel or utensil as large or larger than the primary top directly over the flame or heat openings and set it upon the usual supportingpins, P, of the primary top without removing or disturbing the top.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the two movable pieces A and B with a stovetop of such shape that by using one or the other of such pieces the 7 EDNARD BRUSH FINOH.

Witnesses:

J osnun Ross, 1 I SAMUEL AUGUSTUS SUYDAM. s 

